How to harvest resources on Mars with plasmas
Scientists came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment.
It's a complementary approach to NASA's Mars Oxygen In-Situ...
Black hole collisions could help us measure how fast the universe is expanding
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear—but scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us...
Jupiter’s moon Europa has less salty ice shell than previously thought
Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines.
The bizarre underwater...
This rocket will image supernova remnant
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars — well, a dead star, that is.
On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch...
Thanks to Gaia we know exactly how and when the sun will die
Our Sun is doomed.
Billions of years from now, the Sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and swell to a red giant before becoming a...
Meteorite provides record of asteroids ‘spitting out’ pebbles
In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface...
How did Earth avoid a Mars-like fate? Ancient rocks hold clues
Earth's solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored the planet's magnetic field.
Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling liquid iron in...
Subsurface water on Mars defies expectations
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises.
The first surprise: the top 300 meters of...
Giant meteorite impacts created Earth’s continents, shows study
New Curtin study has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the...
Why stars formed in different environments have similar masses
In theory, masses of stars should vary wildly, yet mass distribution is nearly universal.
New simulations show that star formation is a self-regulatory process.
In an...